Hastings Direct

Manager

• Driving best practices in Data Management, Governance & Quality to support Hastings’ ambition to become a Data Driven Organisation.
• Leading a small team to ensure high quality reconciled data is provided to the business/fed into downstream applications.
• Own the CIO data governance framework that enable and assure the quality, security, and usability of our data.
• Own the definition, documentation, and maintenance of CIO data governance artefacts (e.g., Policies, Processes, Guardrails etc).
• Collaborate with members of the Risk & Audit, Data Protection/Legal Teams, to ensure compliance alignment for our data.
• Collaborate with stakeholders to identify data quality issues and prioritize checks required.
• Lead on establishing monitoring systems to identify, expose and measure key data performance metrics.
• Own the Data Quality framework and its implement within the CIO Data Team.

Data Quality Manager

Data Scientist

• Develop best in-class ML models to predict claims outcomes, fraud and other risk KPIs
• Work with ML Engineers to deploy ML models
• Monitor deployed ML models and link performance to commercial value KPIs
• Present your work to Operational and Commercial stakeholders
• Explore new technologies and contribute to setting team’s best practices

Pricing Analyst

• The risk pricing manager will lead a team of 2 analysts with the aim of delivering our profit and growth targets for home.
• Prioritising team resource and workstack items to help achieve our home profit and growth targets
• Analysing various data sources (including loss, policy, quote and market data), to identify opportunities to improve our risk pricing.
• Developing & delivering new insight, including the integration of new data, new innovative techniques and ways of working
• Working closely with Actuarial, Data Science, Underwriting, Data Engineering, Account Management, Retail and Counter Fraud / Digital teams
• Critically review technical models produced by actuaries and data scientists
• Analyse the above models to determine the optimal way to combine these model outputs to improve the pricing algorithm
• Analyse the models to identify segments where prices can be improved
• Create and maintain tools that enable us to source new pricing leads on an automated basis
• Representing the home team on various underwriting projects to generate value for the wider business
• Support the team through peer reviews, coaching and mentoring
• Ensure that we are meeting customers’ fair and reasonable expectations and provide fair outcomes for our customers.

Home Risk Pricing Manager

SDET

• Provide automation capabilities that support the Scrum Teams to deliver on the Automation Only approach, reducing the percentage of tests that cannot be automated through designing and implementing extensions / adjustments to the Automation Frameworks.
• Identify new opportunities to enhance / extend our test automation capabilities with new and/or updated tooling, supporting the evaluation, decision making, implementation and maintenance of these tools.
• Managing the ongoing maintenance of the tooling to meet the growing demand, increasing performance and allowing the Scrum Teams test early and often on a continuous basis.
• Provide capabilities to support the provision of timely and accurate Test Automation MI for all Scrum Teams, which includes quality measures where possible supporting continuous improvement.
• Define, implement and maintain test automation best practices and drive proactive collaboration and engagement within Scrum Teams and the wider QA community through the Centre of Excellence as well as regular Brown Bag sessions and other means of engagement.
• Mentoring all direct reports, junior staff, and new joiners to achieve the necessary competencies to progress.

Principal Test Automation Engineer

Actuary

• Develop, analyse and monitor risk models to support pricing activities
• Lead development of actuarial assumptions and methodologies that inform modelling
• Create and maintain analytical tools to support in the management of our risk portfolio
• Collaborate with data scientists to integrate actuarial analyses into predictive models
• Partner with underwriters and risk analysts to identify blind spots and develop strategies to mitigate emerging risks
• Stretch the team’s capabilities in actuarial capabilities
• Lead a small team of actuaries and data scientists

Senior Actuary

• Lead end-to-end FP&A reporting: monthly and quarterly close, board materials, ExCo outputs, rolling forecasts, and annual planning cycles
• Set the cadence and standards for reporting across the organisation — acting as the strategic partner to the business on planning assumptions, resource trade-offs, and reporting priorities
• Build the FP&A, reporting, and analysis technology infrastructure that scales the business over the next 3 years, in partnership with Finance and Technology stakeholders
• Drive the digitisation of Management Information and analytics capability, including through Workday, to deliver faster time to insight and clearer route to value
• Own cross-functional initiative to deliver upgraded Groupwide Board and Exco reporting as part of wider Finance transformation, including new planning cycles, KPI redesign, and systems integration
• Build and lead a high-performing team of FP&A and broader finance professionals, focusing on scaling capability in line with organisational ambition and develop the team structure and skill mix required for a modern, technology-enabled financial environment

FP&A Financial Analytics Lead

Engineer

• Contribute to the design, development, and maintenance of scalable and resilient microservices-based applications within the CIO Technology Engineering team.
• Work closely with the Principal Engineer, Group Architecture, and cross-functional scrum teams to deliver high-quality solutions aligned with business and technical requirements.
• Responsible for implementing microservices using best practices defined by the Community of Practice, ensuring consistency, reusability, and maintainability across services.
• Actively participate in code reviews, technical design discussions, and contribute to the continuous improvement of engineering standards.
• Mentor junior engineers, support the adoption of modern engineering practices, and help identify and resolve technical issues early to reduce risk and prevent technical debt.
• Contribute to the creation and tracking of team-level KPIs and support the Principal Engineer in driving strategic initiatives.

Senior Microservices Engineer

Solutions Engineer

• Responsible for defining solutions spanning multiple systems utilizing cloud capabilities
• Creating roadmaps and principles
• Leading and conducting solution architecture activities across the Change lifecycle
• Working alongside business and technical stakeholders to understand opportunities and issues

Solution Architect

Software Engineer

• Key contributor within the CIO Technology Engineering team
• Responsible for designing, building, and maintaining microservices-based applications
• Work closely with senior engineers, architects, and cross-functional scrum teams
• Apply established engineering practices and standards, contribute to code reviews
• Participate in agile ceremonies and take ownership of deliverables
• Troubleshoot issues and continuously improve technical skills and system understanding
• Support junior developers and collaborate across disciplines

Microservices Developer

Frontend Engineer

• Develop and modify software to agreed standards with minimal supervision, applying development best practices and leveraging tooling to ensure high-quality, maintainable code.
• Conduct thorough testing and debugging, document work including GUNIT test coverage, and participate in code reviews to ensure error-free and well-engineered solutions.
• Communicate effectively within the scrum team, attend daily stand-ups and internal meetings, and consistently deliver on user story commitments.
• Support junior team members, contribute to the Development Community of Practice, and stay current with evolving technologies and practices.
• Complete mandatory training, uphold fair customer outcomes, and challenge processes that don’t align with customer-first principles.

Digital Developer, Front End

Backend Engineer

• Design, develop, and maintain scalable, high-availability applications using C#
• Build RESTful Microservice APIs for communication between front-end and back-end systems
• Implement Azure Functions for serverless computing solutions
• Utilise Azure API Management (APIM) for secure and scalable API management
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to integrate solutions within Hastings Direct
• Write clean, testable code and participate in code reviews

.NET Developer

• Supporting the design of, building, and maintaining scalable monitoring and observability solutions
• Ensuring monitoring solutions capture business SLAs and KPIs
• Collaborating with other CIO teams for monitoring requirements
• Supporting evaluations of new capabilities in the monitoring tech stack

Monitoring & Observability Engineer

• Write and Modify software to agreed standards with direction from experienced team members
• Conducts testing and debugging of code, corrects errors, and re-test to achieve error-free results
• Document work in accordance with agreed internal standard including UNIT test coverage and participate in review for own work
• Communicate effectively with the team, participate in scrum meetings, design reviews
• Demonstrable analysis and problem solving skills, adopting a rational and logical approach
• Use analysis and interpretation of relational databases to help in impact analysis and error identification

Java Developer

Project Manager

• The role will report into Rhianna Dumelow, our Head of Sustainability, and will focus on ESG reporting requirements including the Hastings Group annual sustainability report and disclosures to Sampo Group for annual reporting.
• This role also includes management and delivery of projects in line with ESG strategy.
• You will have support from the wider business for your career to develop into a wide range of future opportunities within Hastings.

Data Quality Manager

Data Scientist

Home Risk Pricing Manager

Principal Test Automation Engineer

Senior Actuary

Senior Actuary

FP&A Financial Analytics Lead

Senior Microservices Engineer

Solution Architect

Microservices Developer

Digital Developer, Front End

.NET Developer

Monitoring & Observability Engineer

Java Developer

Sustainability Reporting and Project Manager